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Engineering Manager, Backend Services
Engineering Manager, Backend ServicesSmarterDx • WorkFromHome, Taranaki, New Zealand
Engineering Manager, Backend Services

Engineering Manager, Backend Services

SmarterDx • WorkFromHome, Taranaki, New Zealand
9 hours ago
Job description

SmarterDx, a Smarter Technologies company, builds clinical AI that is transforming how hospitals translate care into payment. Founded by physicians in 2020, our platform connects clinical context with revenue intelligence, helping health systems recover millions in missed revenue, improve quality scores, and appeal every denial. Learn more at smarterdx.com / careers.

Role

We’re looking for a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead a senior team of engineers building mission‑critical backend services built in Python. The ideal candidate for this role is driven to deliver and has a track record of drawing out technical excellence from the teams they manage with a high bar for quality. This role focuses on backend systems that are also data intensive.

This role is fully remote within the US.

What You’ll Do

  • Be accountable for all aspects of the team’s performance including velocity of feature delivery, quality, operational excellence, hiring, retention, professional growth, and well‑being
  • Build robust, well tested services and capabilities
  • Design, build and launch new features and improve the overall quality of our internal and external services
  • Collaborate across disciplines to understand our users and iterate on new ideas
  • Support our services and systems in production
  • Contribute to engineering standards, system design reviews, and best practices around scale, operational excellence, testing and cloud‑native systems

What You Bring

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 2+ years as an engineering manager
  • Expertise in Python
  • Experience owning products from development, through delivery to live support and maintenance
  • Expertise running an agile process (preferably Kanban) for a team and fluency with the agile toolkit
  • Extensive experience working with product managers to shape and define requirements into small, incremental business‑valuable deliverables
  • Deep experience designing and implementing microservice‑based, event‑driven architectures, especially on Kubernetes
  • Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Nice To Haves

  • Experience integrating with FHIR APIs
  • Experience at a scale‑up, or rapid growth, technology company
  • Experience in the health tech domain, particularly in hospital billing systems
  • Compensation

    $230K to $270K base salary + equity incentives

    Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 90‑100% of your premiums and 70‑90% for dependents, depending on the plan.
  • One Medical Membership – Free membership included if you enroll in a SmarterDx medical plan.
  • Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption : Up to 12 weeks for birthing parents and 6 weeks for non‑birthing parents.
  • Remote‑First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S. with a $400 home office reimbursement stipend.
  • Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – 4 of which include floating holidays so you can recognize the days that matter most to you.
  • Learning & Development Budget – $500 per year (prorated) for courses, books, and resources to expand your skills.
  • 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax‑advantaged retirement savings through Empower.
  • Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast‑moving, high‑impact environment where you can focus on what matters.
  • Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission‑driven colleagues.
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